March 10: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

March 10, 2022 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1905, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA — The dispatches of the Associated Press from Tokyo and Yinkow today, announcing that Mukden had fallen and that the Japanese had captured thousands of prisoners and enormous quantities of stores and guns, only confirm the worst fears entertained here, the dispatches of the Associated Press received here last night having shown that the trap was sprung. The announcement furnished a miserable end to the Russian carnival week. This being a holiday, the War Office was closed to the public, hundreds of people in quest of news besieging the doors in vain. The extent of the disaster to General Kuropatkin’s army had not been known here, but the most sinister reports received credence and the public believed that Field Marshal Oyama had succeeded in closing the iron ring around at a least a portion of the army.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1947, the Eagle reported, “MOSCOW (U.P.) — The Big Four convened late today in the glittering Soviet House of Aviation Industry for the most important diplomatic conclave since Versailles — dedicated to the task of forging treaties of peace for Germany and Austria and guaranteeing the security of Europe against aggression. The meeting was convoked by Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov shortly after he had met with Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who renewed the American bid for a four-power 40-year treaty to keep Germany disarmed and demilitarized. The Foreign Ministers, Molotov, Marshall, Ernest Bevin of Britain and Georges Bidault of France, drove in their limousines through a heavy snowstorm to the refurbished Aviation House, four miles from the Kremlin on the Leningrad Chausee near the edge of the city. Streets leading to the conference hall, formerly the Soviet Flyers Club and in pre-revolutionary times the famous Yar Restaurant, the smartest in Imperial Moscow, were well guarded by the Soviet militia men, who act as traffic cops in Russia. Mr. Molotov presided at the first session, which was expected to be brief and largely devoted to formalities. The chairmanship will rotate daily.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1949, the Eagle reported, “LONDON (U.P.) — The cabinet approved in principle the draft of the proposed Atlantic Pact today, authoritative sources reported. Cabinet approval of the Atlantic Pact document put the formal seal on the approval which ranking members of the government had given to the document drafted in Washington. The cabinet met at No. 10 Downing St., official residence of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to discuss the alliance. It is expected the pact will be signed in Washington the first week in April. In another field of Western unity, Foreign Ministers of the five Brussels pact countries prepared to meet here next Monday to review together the Atlantic Pact. It will link the five — Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg — with the United States, Canada and probably several other European countries.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1951, the Eagle reported, “The Government is expected to present in court next week secret atom bomb information which three persons are accused of stealing to give to Russia. David Greenglass, a former Army sergeant at the Los Alamos, N.M., atomic installation, testified yesterday that he began passing such information to his brother-in-law, Julius Rosenberg, in 1944. Greenglass’ testimony climaxed the first week of the Government’s efforts to prove Rosenberg, his wife, Ethel, and Morton Sobell guilty of spying for Russia. If convicted, they could be sentenced to the electric chair. Greenglass, indicted as a co-conspirator with the three, pleaded guilty earlier.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1963, the Eagle reported, “LONDON — British experts said yesterday that Red China has served notice on the Kremlin that it may eventually try to recover vast reaches of land tsarist Russia wrested from the tottering Chinese empire. The experts noticed that Russia was specifically included in a list of ‘imperialist and colonialist powers’ which the Peking Communist ‘People’s Daily’ said had imposed ‘unequal treaties’ on China. ‘By virtue of these unequal treaties, they annexed Chinese territory in the north, south, east and west, and held leased territories on the seaboard and in the hinterlands,’ the editorial said. ‘Unequal treaties!’ was a war cry of Chinese nationalism years before the Communists conquered the country.”

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Barbara Corcoran
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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include “Walker, Texas Ranger” star Chuck Norris, who was born in 1940; “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” star Katharine Houghton, who was born in 1945; Boston founder Tom Scholz, who was born in 1947; businesswoman and media personality Barbara Corcoran, who was born in 1949; “Basic Instinct” star Sharon Stone, who was born in 1958; “A Different World” star Jasmine Guy, who was born in 1962; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam), who was born in 1963; music producer Rick Rubin, who was born in 1963; singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, who was born in 1966; “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm, who was born in 1971; rapper Timbaland, who was born in 1972; musician and actress Carrie Underwood, who was born in 1983; and “House” star Olivia Wilde, who was born in 1984.

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SALE OF THE CENTURY: The Louisiana Purchase was completed on this day in 1804 when Spain transferred ownership of Upper Louisiana to France, which then transferred it to the U.S. A total of 828,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River changed hands, nearly doubling the size of the young nation.

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FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA: The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on this day in 1848, ending the Mexican War. The treaty set the U.S.-Mexican border at the Rio Grande and also gave the U.S. ownership of California and much of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

Quotable:

“You don’t need an MBA to launch a business. You need street smarts and grit.”

— businesswoman Barbara Corcoran, who was born on this day in 1949